Most people buying a home check the school ratings, the flood zone, maybe the noise from a nearby highway. Very few pull up a ...

CITYWIDE — It's a seismic year for Santa Monica. In the 20th year since the destructive Northridge Earthquake, city officials announced they would assess buildings that might need seismic upgrades and ...

Most people only think about earthquakes after one happens. The news cycle kicks in, the footage rolls, and for a few days everyone wonders how we can be better prepared. Then life moves on. But for ...

A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up to 1.6 million years old, according to a map published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) While the fault lines might have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LOUIS – Earlier in the month, Missouri and nearby states saw a string of small earthquakes triggered along the New Madrid ...

This has scientists quaking in their boots. Researchers have found that one of the US’s most dangerous fault lines is overdue for an earthquake, potentially threatening millions of people across ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Earthquakes are not uncommon in Washington, but many people think of them as a westside thing. The most concerning fault line, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, runs along the west coast ...